When finished next year, it will be the eighth dam on the Lancang River—China's name for its 1,300-mile stretch of the Mekong. In recent years Boontom and many others here have sold their ...

BANGKOK, April 13 (Reuters) – China’s Mekong River dams held back large amounts of water during a ... We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video ...

The Mekong Delta will disappear in the next several decades once Pak Beng Dam and another 10 planned hydropower dams are built on the Mekong River in Laos and Cambodia, Townships along the Mekong ...

A big spike in water levels has been detected along the Mekong River which could threaten the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people who live hand to mouth off crops planted along the banks of the ...

The Mekong is everybody's river. But when China released water from the dams, the river's level was raised by one metre overnight,' Niwat Roikaew, a leader of 'Love Chiang Khong', a Mekong ...

“This means it’s not the normal Mekong water. It’s water that’s been stored behind a dam.” River water should instead be full of silt. The Mekong, South-east Asia’s main ...

Mekong's Forgotten Fishes, a new report published by WWF and Global Water Center, in tandem with 24 other local, regional and global Mekong-based organizations, details the extraordinary variety of ...

The China-backed Pak Lay hydropower project is just one of nine dams that the Lao government has planned for the Mekong River. Analyzing Chinese dams in Laos provides insight into the local ...

The proposed Funan Techo Canal is set to connect the country's coast to the Mekong River via a system of lock gates. In a new report, the World Wildlife Fund claims that dam developments ...